Islands must get fair access to the National Grid demanded SNP MEP Alyn Smith. In a top-level deal to be struck this week, Ofgem will agree how much to charge generation companies for transmitting electricity and the MEP says it must stop overcharging islands.

SNP MEP Alyn Smith has welcomed the news that Edinburgh-based company, Aquamarine Power, has got the go-ahead from the Scottish Government to develop the world's most advanced wave farm off the north-west coast of Lewis.